page_title: Beer Ajam
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Beer Ajam / History
caption_attribution_description: العربية: صورة لقرية بئرعجم القديمة English: Syrian village of Beer Ajam.
context_page_description: Beer Ajam is a Syrian Circassian village in the Quneitra Governorate in the Syrian controlled portion of the Golan Heights. It has been inhabited for about 150 years. Its first houses were built in 1872. Nearby localities include Quneitra to the north, Naba al-Sakhr to the northeast, al-Harra to the east, Namer to the southeast and Bariqa to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beer Ajam had a population of 353 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Circassians from the Abadzekh and Kebertei tribes.
context_section_description: In the late 19th-century Beer Ajam was described as a large and prosperous Circassian village with 80 hut-like houses and a total population of 340. It was built in separate parts, with springs to the north and next to a pond to the south.
caption: The old village
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